From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 12:57:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8545716A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lily.ezo.net (nsc.ezo.net [68.23.200.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D23543FE0 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) Received: from www.ezo.net (peony.ezo.net [68.23.200.11]) by lily.ezo.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8QJvdaS097445 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:57:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) From: "Jim Flowers" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:58:25 -0400 Message-Id: <20030926194655.M43769@ezo.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.90 20030310 X-OriginatingIP: 68.23.200.27 (jflowers) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: make makesum build deinstall reinstall ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:57:44 -0000 I read this in somebody's post (thank you) in regard to using the sendmail port to upgrade to 8.12.10 after changing the version in the Makefile. It worked great but now I would like to know more about this method. Are these targets documented somewhere? Are there limitations/dangers/gotchas to watch out for? I like to use the latest stable version of applications but the port is often 1 or more versions back. Thanks -- Jim Flowers